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Whether it’s a data breach at a retailer, or cloud service providers battling government agencies – not a week goes by without a major story about vulnerable data in the hands of the wrong people. Despite this, cloud adoption continues to explode, with businesses increasingly trusting third parties with their sensitive data.

While keeping data on premise doesn’t guarantee security, it does drastically reduce the numbers of access points. But the case for keeping data on premise goes far beyond a common sense security and risk mitigation play that tells us the fewer servers our data runs through, the safer it is.

Frank Karlitschek is CTO, co-founder and community leader at ownCloud. A long-time KDE contributor,in January 2010, Karlitsche told a standing-room-only audience at Camp KDE that Dropbox was threatening their privacy and he intended to do something about it. | | He quickly wrote... Read More →